A Feminist Perspective in the Academy: The Difference It Makes

Jacket Description/Back: The advent of women's studies has brought a feminist perspective into the academy-but has it made a difference there? Has it transformed our curriculum; has it reshaped our materials; has it altered our knowledge?Table of Contents: Editor's NotesElizabeth Langland and Walter Gove The Difference It MakesPatricia Meyer Spacks New Directions for Feminist Criticism in Theatre and the Related ArtsNancy S. Reinhardt The Feminist Critique in Religious StudiesRosemary Radford Ruether What the Women's Movement Has Done to American HistoryCarl N. Degler Speaking From Silence: Women and the Science of PoliticsNannerl O. Keohane How the Study of Women Has Restructured the Discipline of EconomicsNancy S. Barrett Anthropology and the Study of GenderJudith Shapiro Changing Conceptions of Men and Women: A Psychologist's PerspectiveJanet T. Spence Women in Sociological Analysis: New Scholarship Versus Old ParadigmsCynthia Fuchs EpsteinBiographical Note: Elizabeth Langland, associate professor and chair of the English Department at Converse College, coedited "The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development." Walter Gove, professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, is the editor of "Nature and Nurture: The Fundamental Connection and Deviants: The Sociology of Mental Illness."Marc Notes: Originally issued as a special issue of Soundings, v. 64, no. 4, winter 1981.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor Bio:  Langland, Elizabeth Elizabeth Langland, associate professor and chair of the English Department at Converse College, coedited "The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development," Walter Gove, professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, is the editor of "Nature and Nurture: The Fundamental Connection and Deviants: The Sociology of Mental Illness,"